Kinect “Where to start?”

Let’s get directly Into the Core of this Blog post,

1^st Get a Kinect For windows unit.

2^nd Download the SDK and the Toolkit which you will find here.

3^rd Play Around with the toolkit where you will find a lot of helpful resources and demo`s.

Then let’s make a simple application to display the data from the RGB camera.

1. Create a new WPF Project.

2. Add reference to the Kinect Library
   

3. add “using Microsoft.Kinect; “

4. initialize sensor :

            KinectSensor Kinect;
   

            private void Window_Loaded_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
   

            {
   

                if (KinectSensor.KinectSensors.Count < 1)
   

                {
   

                    MessageBox.Show("No Kinect Sensor Attached");
   

                }
   

                else
   

                {
   

                    startkinect();
   

                }
   

            }
   

            private void startkinect()
   

            {
   

                //Link The 1st Kinect 
   

                Kinect = KinectSensor.KinectSensors.FirstOrDefault();
   

                //Enable Color Stream
   

                Kinect.ColorStream.Enable();
   

                //Start Sensor
   

                Kinect.Start();
   

                Kinect.AllFramesReady += Kinect_AllFramesReady;
   

            }
   

5. At MainWindows.xaml add Image with width=320 Height=240 and Name = RGB .
   

6. Now lets link the RGB Data To the Image frame.

            void Kinect_AllFramesReady(object sender, AllFramesReadyEventArgs e)
           {
               colorFrame(e);
           }
   
           private void colorFrame(AllFramesReadyEventArgs e)
           {
               using (ColorImageFrame ColorFrame = e.OpenColorImageFrame())
               {
                   if (ColorFrame == null)
                   {
                       return;
                   }
                   byte [] Pixels = new byte[ColorFrame.PixelDataLength] ;
                   ColorFrame.CopyPixelDataTo(Pixels);
                   int stride = ColorFrame.Width*4;
   
                   RGB.Source = BitmapSource.Create(ColorFrame.Width
                   ,ColorFrame.Height,96,96,PixelFormats.Bgr32,null,Pixels
                   ,stride);
               }
           }
   

7. One last thing don’t forget to close the Kinect When You are Done :)

    private void Window_Closing_1(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
   

            {
   

                Kinect.Stop();
   

                Kinect = null;
   

            }
   

8. Now You are all done,lets run It.

9. You should be seeing a Video for what ever in front of the Kinect.

And that’s all you are Done with your 1st application , If you have any questions don’t hesitate To ask me